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... I spent so many lonely days, many even lonelier nights, asking of myself the whys and wherefores of this terrible life. To suffer such ignoble pains, to be unjustly accused of things I had ......
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Victor Buhagiar
Categories:
wherefores,
visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Immortal Lines by an Aging Poet
...If wisdom could come from a joyless life of a hundred years where love's never found but hatred comes at the point of a knife, then these lines offer hope with this poem's sound. Fro......
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Ngoc Nguyen
Categories:
wherefores,
age, god, hope, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Walk The Tightrope
...Don't Walk blinks RED screaming; Staying Alive, Life Ark two by two -- save/spend and start/end, Better Safe Then Sorry -- Don't Drink and Drive, Catch phrase that forewarn--protect and de......
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Hilo Poet
Categories:
wherefores,
anxiety, confidence, faith, inspirational,
Form:
Sonnet
Light That Lights All Llghts
... Primordial begs a question. Precursor answers, prior request. Clarity necessitates perspective anchored. Pre-Genesis /\ Chapter 1: Verse 1 of it being OUR EARTH-- / \ Verse 3 is the F......
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Hilo Poet
Categories:
wherefores,
death, destiny, mother son,
Form:
Concrete
READ: Why the Wherefores and Wherewithals of my OPEN and WORKING
...Poeticism Way Off Base I Wrote Below and may have been OVERLOOKED; BEARS READING AND UNDERSTANDING The deletion of one's post will then have a direct impact on one's totality of posts being r......
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Hilo Poet
Categories:
wherefores,
analogy,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
In The Shadow of Sunlight
...We are the children of the Sun We are the children of the light We are a shadow yond the Sun We are a shadow yond the light The Sun sees us in the shadow The light sees us in the shadow The S......
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Hilo Poet
Categories:
wherefores,
analogy,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
It Is Not Your Time
...Saturday, wouldst be Sadder Day nineteen seventy-five purple skies dusk twilight display friend and I, still alive Sleepyheads, car seats unbuckled Russian roulette enroute shut eyes ......
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Hilo Poet
Categories:
wherefores,
recovery from,
Form:
Quatrain
It's Just a Game
...These Limericks were written after playing a card game called Poo Pocalypse... don't ask or I'll blame it on Jan...lol History recorded leaders in wars Great men and wome......
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Lin Lane
Categories:
wherefores,
humor,
Form:
Limerick
Epistrophe: History Begins At The End - P r o s e N o s e
...When the ability to write manifested itself among the many learned minds, accounting, and recordkeeping too, had manifested as what has become known to be called, history. The routine breakdown, a......
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Hilo Poet
Categories:
wherefores,
analogy, appreciation, beautiful, education,
Form:
Prose
Faded
...Alone he sat thinking of this of that whys and wherefores- His yesterdays faded now but alive as today's newspaper His tomorrows yet to be ......
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Brian Strand
Categories:
wherefores,
retirement,
Form:
Verse
Optimise Our Fate
...Optimise our fate By Michelle Morris 16/06/2020 The sun is setting; Another day draws to an end; Another present that has enriched our lives Or regrets for moments sadly misspent. And a......
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Michelle Morris
Categories:
wherefores,
blessing, fate, life, light,
Form:
Free verse
Knotted
...despite some consideration for the hows, whys, wherefores and whether unguided, wandering through known universe tying things together aged in millenniums, centuries, decades, days, hours and min......
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Ng Rippel
Categories:
wherefores,
humanity, people, perspective, planet,
Form:
Monoku
Broken Fences
...My senses are over run You’ve distorted every one Now my emotions sit on fences Unsure how to fend offences How my eyes tend to deceive Peripheral sightings I believe You are the corners of m......
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Hat Bueckert
Categories:
wherefores,
memory, miss you,
Form:
Rhyme
Enlightenment Recovery
...Knowing the whys and wherefores For the traumas that come into our lives Helping us to open long-concealed doors, It refreshes our spirit and clearly revives. For the traumas that c......
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L Milton Hankins
Categories:
wherefores,
anti bullying, anxiety, perspective,
Form:
Pantoum
Discovery and Decisions
...“In an outburst of anger, I hid My face from you for a moment, But with everlasting lovingkindness I will have compassion on you,” Says the Lord your Redeemer." Isaiah 54:8 Jeh......
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Reason A. Poteet
Categories:
wherefores,
11th grade, christian, god,
Form:
Free verse
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